Cisco 700-821 Certification Sample Questions and Answers

Cisco 700-821 sample questions for Cisco IoT Essentials for System Engineers preparationThe Cisco 700-821 Certification Sample Questions on this page help you become familiar with the question style and knowledge areas of the Cisco IoT Essentials for System Engineers (IOTSE) exam. Each question is written to reflect the syllabus topics and the level of understanding the certification expects, so you can see how theoretical concepts are tested in practice. Working through them lets you check your understanding, identify topics that need further study, and get comfortable interpreting certification-style questions before you sit the official exam.

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Cisco 700-821 (IOTSE) Sample Questions:

01. Which statement best describes the architecture of the Cisco IoT Operations Dashboard?
a) Firmware running inside each sensor
b) A cloud SaaS plane with an on-device agent
c) Software installed per engineer laptop
d) An inline appliance on all plant traffic
 
02. Besides its base unit, how is the Cisco IR1101 extended to add interfaces such as additional cellular, serial or storage?
a) With expansion and pluggable modules
b) By StackWise-stacking two IR1101s
c) By swapping the whole chassis
d) By licensing extra physical ports
 
03. How is a new Cisco IR router most commonly brought online at a remote site without sending an engineer to type its configuration?
a) A USB stick via the carrier
b) A guess from signal strength
c) Zero-touch Network Plug and Play
d) A mandatory console session first
 
04. Which Cisco Industrial Ethernet family runs Cisco IOS XE and so supports on-switch application hosting and modern programmability (NETCONF/YANG)?
a) The IE 3x00 and IE 9300 lines
b) The IE 1000 basic line
c) The IE 2000 and IE 4000 lines
d) The IE 5000 aggregation line
 
05. An operations team wants to manage hundreds of Cisco IE switches with automated provisioning, software image management and assurance from one controller.
Which Cisco platform provides this scale management for the IE portfolio?
a) Cisco ThousandEyes
b) Cisco Catalyst Center
c) A single switch’s on-box WebUI
d) Cisco Umbrella
 
06. When a new device is onboarded to the IoT Operations Dashboard, what underpins the trusted, tamper-resistant identity used to verify it is a genuine Cisco device?
a) A password on the shipping box
b) A serial number in a spreadsheet
c) A factory-installed SUDI certificate
d) The current DHCP lease
 
07. A managed-service provider uses one IoT Operations Dashboard tenancy to manage devices for many separate customers while keeping each customer’s devices isolated.
Which dashboard concept supports this?
a) A separate on-site appliance per customer
b) One flat list of all devices
c) The admin password shared per customer
d) An organization hierarchy per tenant
 
08. Compared with a traditional VPN-plus-jump-host for remote OT access, what is a defining advantage of Secure Equipment Access?
a) No user authentication is needed
b) No inbound firewall opening and no VPN client
c) Every user installs a thick VPN client
d) Each PLC is exposed to the internet
 
09. In a Cisco Ultra-Reliable Wireless Backhaul deployment, what are the two distinct radio roles that make up the system?
(Choose two.)
a) A satellite ground station
b) A DNS resolver appliance
c) A public cellular packet core
d) Fixed infrastructure radios along the route
e) Mobile radios on the moving asset
 
10. Within Cisco SD-Access, how does a Policy Extended Node differ from a plain Extended Node at the IoT edge?
a) It propagates group policy (SGTs) for edge micro-segmentation
b) It adds more uplink bandwidth
c) It must be a Layer-3 core switch
d) It disables all VLANs on the switch

Answers:

Question: 01

Answer: b

Question: 02

Answer: a

Question: 03

Answer: c

Question: 04

Answer: a

Question: 05

Answer: b

Question: 06

Answer: c

Question: 07

Answer: d

Question: 08

Answer: b

Question: 09

Answer: d, e

Question: 10

Answer: a

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